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stinkwheel Bovine Proctologist
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Last long motorway hike I did en route to a spain tour we did Carlisle to Portsmouth. We put all three bikes in the back of a van and parked it up in the nearby airport parking. Think it probably worked out cheaper too by the time you'd paid three lots of fuel and tyre wear. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles. |
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I quite like a bit of motorway riding, but then my weekend loop on a sportsbike encompasses all sorts of roads from motorway to single tracks with grass up the middle. On motorways, even long slogs, I prefer to pick off the traffic by being the fastest out there, rather than going with the flow. It’s also more fun, and I think it puts the bike in its happy place. I can think of a corrugated concrete A-road where the R1 in particular rolls smoothly across the surface at speed but jars when slower.
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UncleBFester wrote: | Handful of trips a year in iffy weather?
Hire a nice car. |
I used to do that years ago. No car, so biking all year round unless icy, in which case I walked 20 minutes to the local Vauxhall garage and hired a car for a few days. Worked out nicely up until the last time when they said I’d returned the Corsa with a cracked windscreen (passenger side near the top, extending from the very edge) and I got stung for a new screen. Then they closed down, and I moved away soon after anyway. I recently thought about selling the car, pocketing the currently inflated prices for used cars and going back to bike-only again. There’s not enough profit in it, and I’m probably too old for 100% biking now. |
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c_dug wrote: | adam277 wrote: | I love driving on the M25 a night with the smart motorway cameras.
The flashes go off like xmas lights. Literally like 4-8 every few secs.
Amazes me how many ignore them.
That being said. A lot of the time they drop the motorway speed to say 40mph for no reason and a lot of people just ignore it without getting flashed.
I prefer to play it safe and just drop to whatever speed is on the signs. |
I think you must use a different M25 to me, I reckon I've seen maybe one HADECS camera go off in the last two years, and maybe 2 or 3 gantry cameras at most, but only with signage lit.
Certainly far from every journey, I must do a long M25 journey once (return) a month on average I reckon. |
Well I drive a HGV often for Tesco and Argos in Thurrock/Basildon so I'm on the M25 daily.
The flashes are not so obvious during the day but quite obvious at night.
A lot of hgvs I believe get done by them. As their limiters are often set to 56mph which will trigger a 50mph camera.
Most common area is between the dartford crossing and A10.
Another time I see them go off quite often is when the close a lane. For whatever reason I see so many drivers just ignore the red X on the gantries and just plow through. They don't always flash but quite often they do.
Personally, I dont get why people feel the need to drive in a closed lane. It's dangerous and stupid. ____________________ Bikes: Previous Bikes: Piaggio x8 125: 2012/2013, YBR 125: 2013/2013 BMW R1150GS 2013/2017, Honda CBR600RR 2017/2017, Honda CB500 2018/2018, Suzuiki Address 110cc 2019/2020, BMW R1200GS 2021-2023
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Whenever I've travelled on the bike to Anglesey, I've always plotted a route avoiding the motorway. It didn't take that much longer, and going via Snowden, Llangollen, Llanberis etc is much more fun.
Well, fun if you aren't shitting yourself rocking a dark fly covered visor at night, running on petrol fumes in the valleys, with barely anything open after 7pm, and a mate whose bike decided to chuck a random check engine light. ____________________
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sickpup wrote: |
One of the biggest factors in how fast you go at this time of year is what gear you have and the weather.
Decent Gore-Tex and you will always be dry, add a heated jacket and you don't get cold so can maintain a higher average speed. It's no use going fast for an hour and having to spend half an hour to warm up because you have crap gear. |
Exactly this. I can also confirm that Sunblest bags placed over your gloves, with Royal Mail elastic bands securing them to you wrists, do not perform like the waterproof over-mits you might hope for. ____________________ Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750
Then: Fizz, RS200, KL250, XJ550, Laverda Alpina, XJ600, FZS600 |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 2 years, 132 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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